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CA SCR 53

in committee

Relative to High School Voter Education Weeks.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SCR 53 pass?

Not yet. CA SCR 53 is in committee as of 2025-06-27 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-06-27): Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Pérez.

What is CA SCR 53 about?

This measure would declare Monday, April 14, 2025, to Friday, April 25, 2025, inclusive, as High School Voter Education Weeks and would strongly encourage local educational agencies to dedicate at least one of those 2 weeks to educating pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, on the electoral process, as provided. The measure would encourage local educational agencies to provide digital and physical resources necessary to provide this instruction and would encourage the governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies to contract with third-party nonprofit organizations, as provided, to accomplish this instruction.

Who sponsors CA SCR 53?

Pérez is the primary sponsor of CA SCR 53, joined by 11 cosponsors.

Description

This measure would declare Monday, April 14, 2025, to Friday, April 25, 2025, inclusive, as High School Voter Education Weeks and would strongly encourage local educational agencies to dedicate at least one of those 2 weeks to educating pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, on the electoral process, as provided. The measure would encourage local educational agencies to provide digital and physical resources necessary to provide this instruction and would encourage the governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies to contract with third-party nonprofit organizations, as provided, to accomplish this instruction.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-06-27 — Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Pérez.
Bill type
concurrent resolution
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Pérezauthor
  • Allencoauthor
  • Blakespearcoauthor
  • Cabaldoncoauthor
  • Durazocoauthor
  • Grovecoauthor
  • Limóncoauthor
  • Menjivarcoauthor
  • Ochoa Boghcoauthor
  • Richardsoncoauthor
  • Rubiocoauthor
  • Smallwood-Cuevascoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-28

    Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.

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  2. 2025-04-09

    From committee: Ordered to third reading.

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  3. 2025-06-27

    Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Pérez.

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Votes

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Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SCR53

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